These crisp, tender, butter cut-out cookies can be decorated with sugars for an inexpensive way to capture the spirit of any season.

These delicate buttery mints are a perfect easy-to-make gift.

Bake this zucchini bread spiced with cinnamon when zucchini is plentiful in the garden.

Make these favorites for a gift to be mailed.

Almond paste and sliced almonds combine for a dense cake similar to a traditional Scandinavian favorite.

Almonds complement this moist and rich sour cream coffee cake.

These delicate and sweet cookies topped with n almond glaze will melt in your mouth.

These crisp almond cookies are cut into medallions and decorated with bright colored sugar.

Traditional cream puffs filled with an ever so light and creamy filling.

Tangy apricot cream and rich homemade cheesecake make a colorful and delicious dessert.

The apricot-almond mixture contributes not only a second flavor, but chewy, sweet marbling to this tender cake.

Bake these apricot and spice muffins from a convenient homemade muffin mix you previously mixed and stored.

Brandied apricots are tucked inside a sweet cardamom bread that's shaped in a wreath and sprinkled with pearl sugar.

Coffee cake with a layer of apricot atop a creamy coffee cake filling will be a special morning brunch treat to serve your weekend guests.

Light and fluffy apricot filling in a crisp cream puff shell makes an elegant dessert.